Editor’s Note: At ACRLog we ecourage academic librarians to share conference reports with us – at the national and chapter level. This posting provides a report from Scott Vine, Reference Services Librarian at Franklin & Marshall College and a member of the Delaware Valley Chapter of ACRL. Here is his report on their latest program.
The [...]

My library has been working on updating our tenure and promotion policies. Yes, I can hear the collective groans from everyone out there, and it has indeed been a slow and painstaking process. But wait — lest I start out on a negative note I want to hasten to add that it is also a [...]

The good news is that libraries can have Facebook pages again. Many used to, and then were evicted when Facebook decided only individuals could apply. (Whether you can run apps that lead people away from Facebook – say, into your catalog – is another matter . . .)
The bad news is that Facebook’s new [...]

Aaron Swartz, co-creator of RSS, co-founder of Reddit, technical lead on the Open Library project, etc., has agreed to speak at ACRL’s University Libraries Section Current Topics session at Midwinter. The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 12 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
As a new academic librarian, this is exactly the sort of thing I’d like to [...]

He’s not an academic librarian, but he is well known in our community. And it’s likely that something he has written at one time or another has probably annoyed or pissed you off. But I don’t doubt that you will miss what Scott Carlson, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s library beat reporter for many years, [...]